Since Dec. 20, word has spread quickly via social media and email lists that a common pochard – a “mega rarity” in the birdwatching world – is mingling with several hundred other ducks on Freshwater Lagoon, about 45 miles from the California-Oregon border.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article124394029.html

Several counts are coming up: Jan. 14, Feb. 11 and March 11.

1. Big Bear Lake
   909-382-2790

2. Lake Arrowhead/Lake Gregory/Silverwood Lake
   909-382-2832

3. Lake Hemet
   909-382-2945

4.Lake Perris
951-940-5600

http://m.ocregister.com/articles/infographic-740233-bald-eagles.html

Jutting out into San Francisco Bay, the Albany Bulb and Neck has received a lot of attention for its human uses: a onetime garbage dump, onetime homeless encampment, and the first section of shoreline targeted to be a part of today’s McLaughlin Eastshore State Park.

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/01/20/citizen-scientists-document-bird-life-albany-bulb/

Kestrels are a fixture among the birds on the Merced Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve Opens a New Window. adjacent to campus.

Though they are not endangered, the small falcons’ population has declined by 60 percent in California over the past half-century because of changes in land usage.

http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/2017/bird-researcher-expands-knowledge-about-reserve’s-kestrels

The demonstration will be in opposition to the administration’s plans to delete climate change data and gag scientists

https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/science/donald-trump-science-march-washington-climate-change-global-warming-a7547206.html%3Famp